What was the inspiration for that name?

Yeah, the truth is, there are a lot of opinions out there but the vast majority of people are absolutely clueless about how vulnerable human brains are. We have to learn everything the hard way.

If you can wear shoes, you can wear a helmet. It’s not that hard.

I recently had to get a new card cancelled and reissued because it was sent to an old address. I definitely updated my address with that bank, but it didn’t stick.

I’ve updated my address with other companies and later found that different parts of their system kept different addresses.

Not too long ago I even worked on the address changing section of a finance company’s website. That project was a nightmare, and I learned a lot about why address changes are much harder to implement than you would think.

I really wanted to spend more time ironing out edge cases on that one, but I was under a lot of pressure to get it delivered because some genius had already committed to removing the forms we already used for this.

So basically it’s possible this person did change their address, at least for some things with that bank, and fixing it might not be something they can do without just the right specific instruction. As long as the bank can demonstrate a good faith attempt to do it right, they are legally covered. Sometimes it’s cheaper to compensate for very rare customer losses that result in edge case fuckups, than to pay developers what it would take to fix it properly.

AU outlets sound pretty good by comparison. I’m sure there are improvements to be made, but I never have any of those issues.

The show briefly showed Drummer in charge of a small poly crew.

It depends who you ask.

In practice, the former.

I want to believe some Labor politicians are the latter, but afraid to show it because it’s punished the party politically in the past. There are definitely right and left factions within the party, it’s just not clear what the balance is.

Perhaps you have to experience it from the outside. It’s hard to put my finger on, but there’s a noticeable difference in how Americans see race.

Here in Australia we’re quite diverse, but within a generation people tend to act very similarly, regardless of background. There are still differences, and they should be celebrated, but I’d say we have more in common as just Australians. There’s a tipping point where what’s most important is either a common national identity, or ethnic identity. It feels like we are just barely on different sides of that line - which is funny because Americans are more into overt displays of patriotism.

For example, we won’t claim to be Irish because our grandparents were. That’s probably the most common differentiator.

That said, racism exists here like everywhere else, and is a problem. That may be a different discussion though, because it’s the minority.

You know what… the more I think about, it shouldn’t be any different between our countries. But it’s an impression everyone seems to have so there must be something to it. Maybe it’s because the United States is relatively insular? It means the differences within your country are more significant. Australians have a lot of interaction with other nationalities (tourism is an important industry and we love to travel) so our national identity becomes more significant, because that’s what we’re often representing. Europe would be similar with its relaxed borders.

It was more focused in the beginning, but I left them a while ago because it did become derailed as it grew. Reddit was never great at nuance.

Yeah, but fuckcars is also a venting space so I didn’t want to get into technicalities. There are urbanist communities that do a better job of presenting the bigger picture.

That’s supposed to be the consensus of the “fuck cars” movement, but the name certainly gives the impression of being completely against cars. When your eyes are opened to how car-centric infrastructure has taken over our societies it’s hard not to be a bit reactive.

Bring more warm stuff than you think you need. An extra blanket, beanie, thick socks (and spare pairs).

Also sun protection. Broad hat and sunscreen. Even if you think it won’t be sunny.

Wet wipes can go a long way with cleanliness.

More drinking water than you expect.

That should cover the basic comforts. For the rest it sounds like you can just go with the flow.

Bake the potato. Add sour cream, chives, and a dash of seeded mustard to the final mix. Bacon bits are optional.

This is how I learned to like a particular subset of potato salad.

I didn’t know that at the time, pre-diagnosis, but it’s so obvious now.

Cocaine makes absolutely no sense to me. Are you having a good time, letting loose and getting relaxed with friends while enjoying a few beverages? Here, take this substance that will make you disturbingly sober. Everything is clear, level, and so very normal. Fun huh?

At a music festival, actually able to listen to a complete song without my mind wandering… is this why people take stimulants?

Yeah, I’ve seen it from hypersexual people who seem to have unprocessed shame and need to believe their own behaviour is justified by being a universal human trait. The existence of asexuality threatens that.

I’ve been seeing a lot of reports lately of white people getting screwed over like this. They all had one thing in common: women traveling without male company.

The main limitation I always had with Strava was limited activities. I know there are off road onewheelers who log their routes as ice skating, for example.

It would also be nice to save points of interest that aren’t linear routes. E.g. nice vantage points, businesses that accommodate group rides, public water/toilets/power.

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M’spaint.

I haven’t encountered Brendan yet, but I look forward to yet another reality-bleed.

Forget the turducken. This year we’re having brachiotyranotriceradilophovelociturducken.